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わたし
どんな
ぎせい
犠牲
はら
っても
きゃくほんか
脚本家
べていく
こころ
めている

I am determined to make a living as a playwright at all costs.
Conjugations and inflections
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Words
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1. I; me
2. private affairs; personal matter; secrecy  (this meaning is restricted to reading わたくし)
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expression
at all costs; whatever the price; would give anything
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0
noun
scriptwriter; playwright; scenario writer
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2
ichidan verb, transitive verb
1. to eat
2. to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
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3 2
noun
1. mind; heart; spirit
2. the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
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ichidan verb, transitive verb
1. to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix
2. to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match)
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Kanji
シ   わたくし    わたし I, myself   
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ム   private
grain
ギ    sacrifice   
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ギュウ   うし cow   
ギ    honour   
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ガ   I; myself   われ    わが-    
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tasseled spear
hand
ヨウ   ひつじ sheep   
セイ    animal sacrifice   
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セイ   ショウ    life   なま raw   いかす to enliven   いきる to live   いける to arrange flowers   うまれる to be born   う to give birth to   き pure, undiluted   お to grow, to sprout   はえる to grow, to sprout   はやす to grow, cultivate   
フツ    to pay; to dispose of   はら to pay   
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キャク   キャ   あし leg   
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ニク body part   
キャク    withdraw, pull back   
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キョ   コ   さ leave   
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ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
seal
ホン   book   もと origin   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
モク   ボク   き    こ- tree   
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ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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ジン   ニン   ひと person   
stick   
カ   ケ   house   いえ    や    
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pig
roof   
ショク   ジキ    food   たべる to eat   く to eat   
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リョウ   よ good   
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
シン   こころ heart   
ケツ   きめる to decide   きまる to be decided   
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スイ   みず water   
カイ   ケツ    decide, determine   
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